Aboriginal Indian pottery of the Dominican republic
By: by Herbert W. Krieger.
Series: Smithsonian institution. United States National museum. Bulletin 156
Publisher: U.S. Govt. print. off.
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Pottery -- Dominican Republic.; Indians of the West Indies -- Dominican Republic.; Arawak Indians.; Dominican Republic -- Antiquities.
Description: The material culture of the Arawak Indians of Santo Domingo is South American in origin, and in a general way, in content. Pottery was brought to the islands and there developed into artistic forms not known in the pristine home of the island of Arawak. The use of slips and paints, like the shaping of divergent forms, was taking its beginning in southeastern Santo Domingo at the time of the discovery and conquest by Columbian forces.